I can be red when I am blackOr a straw that you can eat;If I'm green when I am blue,
Then I will be sour, not sweet.
I can be “false” but I don’t lie;I can be a “pilot” but I don’t flyI can be “common” but my numbers continue to fall;And New Zealand is home to the rarest of all.
"I go fishing and sometimes have a head without a face
I'm often straight and always at the finish of the race"...
... What am I?
"My cycle you don't ride; But from me you cannot hid; Deep or tight, rough or light; I'll be visiting you tonight"... ...What am I?
"With you now, but not for long; I start and end with the same song; I've been hot and I've been cold; Almost over and just ten months old"... ...What am I?
An individual work of art that’s always skin deep I’m painful at the start and something that you keep. There are eight in the club but there used to be none; Always on the move but never in a straight line.
In essence, a cryptic clue leads to its answer as long as it is read in the right way. What the clue appears to say when read normally (the surface reading) is a distraction and usually has nothing to do with the clue answer. The challenge is to find the way of reading the clue that leads to the solution.
A typical clue consists of two parts, the definition and the wordplay. It provides two ways of getting to the answer. The definition, which usually exactly matches the part of speech, tense, and number of the answer, is in essence the same as any 'straight' crossword clue, a synonym for the answer. It usually appears at the start or the end of a clue.
The other part (the subsidiary indication, or wordplay) provides an alternative route to the answer (this part would be a second definition in the case of double definition clues). One of the tasks of the solver is to find the boundary between definition and wordplay and insert a mental pause there when reading the clue cryptically. This wordplay gives the solver some instructions on how to get to the answer another way. (Sometimes the two parts are joined with a link word or phrase such as "from", "gives" or "could be".)
New Riddles and Cryptic Clues Week 7 Cryptics
It carries part of China’s sorrow. (3)
Desert inn providing meal service (6, 3)
Acted as a military student (5)
Make up a part as something experimental (9)
Press one improperly for an answer (8)
A road tester perhaps (6)
Release without charge (4)
Viper gives the total (5)
Eager to give consent (5)
Dusty place for the scholar (5)
They’ll drag you over the cold parts of slipshod hikes around American huskies. (7)
A longish time typically in general. (3)
The beast has a laugh about Japanese coinage (5)
Liberated by a stage with no scenery (3, 4)
New wines show muscular strength (5)
The French men lope with a good amount of zest (5, 4)
A flash of some sequins tantalises (7)
Some tourism in US shows negative growth (5)
Figure out love’s mystery (5)
I’m quiet but he probably won’t be (3)
Admit the French can (3, 2) Week 4 - Set 3
Have some property in the township (4)
Vats I’d arranged for those that push the boat out (6)
Secret scheme to shoot about fifty (4)
A little child will get me up the pole (5)
Take no notice of another region (6)
Concerning a boxing match (5)
2. New Set of Cryptic Clues and Rhymes
Robe, the result of wrong designs unravelling (7, 4)
Eat Last salad if nothing else (2, 5)
Mountains in Spain and Americas make some of the easier ranges (6)
Rescue fifty being eaten by a cannibal (7)
Fertile places in Samoa’s espionage network (5)
Working on GST during approach to airport is well-established over many years (4, 8)
Shorten an elevated part of the superstructure (7)
Second-rate transport infrastructure around the centre of Venezuela, a nation in the Americas (6)
Becoming unwell seeing no head on the rear end (3)
Then I will be sour, not sweet.
I'm often straight and always at the finish of the race"...
... What am I?
But from me you cannot hid;
Deep or tight, rough or light;
I'll be visiting you tonight"...
...What am I?
I start and end with the same song;
I've been hot and I've been cold;
Almost over and just ten months old"...
...What am I?
I’m painful at the start and something that you keep.
There are eight in the club but there used to be none;
Always on the move but never in a straight line.
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How cryptic clues work
In essence, a cryptic clue leads to its answer as long as it is read in the right way. What the clue appears to say when read normally (the surface reading) is a distraction and usually has nothing to do with the clue answer. The challenge is to find the way of reading the clue that leads to the solution.A typical clue consists of two parts, the definition and the wordplay. It provides two ways of getting to the answer. The definition, which usually exactly matches the part of speech, tense, and number of the answer, is in essence the same as any 'straight' crossword clue, a synonym for the answer. It usually appears at the start or the end of a clue.
The other part (the subsidiary indication, or wordplay) provides an alternative route to the answer (this part would be a second definition in the case of double definition clues). One of the tasks of the solver is to find the boundary between definition and wordplay and insert a mental pause there when reading the clue cryptically. This wordplay gives the solver some instructions on how to get to the answer another way. (Sometimes the two parts are joined with a link word or phrase such as "from", "gives" or "could be".)
New Riddles and Cryptic Clues
Week 7 Cryptics
They’ll drag you over the cold parts of slipshod hikes around American huskies. (7)
Admit the French can (3, 2)
Week 4 - Set 3
2. New Set of Cryptic Clues and Rhymes